Bug #11649 Updated: Unable to Fork errors

ID: 11649 User updated by: gvirgo@mithril.ca Reported By: gvirgo@mithril.ca Status: Closed Bug Type: Program Execution Operating System: Win98 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: Sorry to take so long in responding.... my DNS has been intermitent of late. Yes and no. It did open the application, but it doesn't help with what I'm trying to do. I'm looking at it from a php-gtk perpective and want to be able to launch whatever application happens to be associated with the file type. Thus, specifying the path to Netscape (for eaxmple) isn't an option since I won't know the if the proggie is installaed on the client box, or installation path. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-08-01 20:30:01] andy@php.net dup of 12485 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-07-23 11:44:32] kalowsky@php.net did this work with derick's suggestion? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-06-25 05:35:09] derick@php.net Try it with the full path to the executable, like this: exec ("c:\windows\playmp3.exe test.mp3"); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-06-25 03:56:26] gvirgo@mithril.ca According to the ChangeLog, the inablity to fork issue in the exec family has been fixed on Win32 in 4.0.6. Unfortunately, this is not so. Calling system(), exec(), or passthru() produces the following error msg: Warning: Unable to fork [test.mp3] in exec.php at line 3 Calling escapeshellcmd() or escapeshellarg() does not give an error or warning message, but also does not execute the command. The above mentions problems occur when the functions are called when running PHP as an Apache module, or by executing the script from command line. Below is a description of my setup, please let me know if additional information is needed. OS: Win98 - SE Processor: AMD K6-2/350 RAM: 192 megs Apache version: 1.3.20 (run as service) PHP: 4.0.6 and 4.0.5 (with Zend Optimizer) Enabled PHP extensions: php_bz2.dll, php_gd.dll, php_imap.dll, php_zlib.dll Output Buffering: On PHP-GTK: version 0.0.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=11649&edit=1